With your generous support, Emory and the James M. Cox Foundation organized this initiative to provide meals for the frontline heroes battling the pandemic while helping food service workers remain employed during these difficult months. Learn more about how your gifts gave comfort and encouragement to so many dedicated people throughout our community.

See the Feed the Frontline digital story.

Thank you for supporting our health care heroes by making a gift to Feed the Frontline.

Since April 3 approximately 10,000 meals each week have been delivered to Atlanta-area hospitals including Emory Healthcare, Grady Health System, Piedmont Health, the Atlanta VA Healthcare System, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Northside Hospital, and WellStar Health System.

The meals have come at no cost to the frontline heroes.

Thanks to your gift.

Gaurav Budhrani, doctor of anesthesiology and critical care at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, praised the program as a welcome pick-me-up during difficult times, “To leave the ICU momentarily and to be surprised with a delicious meal is a huge morale boost, and for that you have my gratitude.”

Having surpassed expectations and fulfilled its mission to ease the burden of health care workers through the first wave of the pandemic, the Feed the Frontline campaign is closing. The final meal delivery will be on May 30.

To detail the final impact of your gift, we will soon be sharing a full digital story featuring personal accounts of those who benefitted from your generosity as well as the program’s amazing totals.

Thank you for making a difference.

Thanks to you—Emory’s #GivingTuesdayNow campaign was a great success. The homepage will continue to tell the story! Check momentum.emory.edu to see the total number of donors, which shows the ever-increasing strength and generosity of our community.

Thanks to you—Emory will continue to help members of our community and advance life-saving research. By standing together with thousands of other donors, you are helping fight this pandemic.  

Thanks to you—Emory continues to deliver more than 9,000 meals a week to keep frontline health care heroes energized and fed. We’ve delivered more than 40,000 meals in Atlanta to date.

Thanks to you—Emory is making progress in the fight to end COVID-19. This recent news about Emory’s remdesivir trial—has been hailed by Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as a gamechanger in the quest for new treatment.

Your gift is helping fund the way forward.

Emory thanks you.

On #GivingTuesdayNow, we hope you will join us in promoting Feed the Frontline. Together we are fueling health care workers in Atlanta and supporting more than a dozen local partner restaurants and businesses. Check out the inspiring video below.

Thank you for supporting and promoting this unique program.

You are part of Emory’s efforts in leading the fight against COVID-19. #GivingTuesdayNow is a new global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5 as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by the novel coronavirus.

You have already contributed to Feed the Frontline (THANK YOU!) so now we ask you to take the next step of amplifying your impact. Energize your family, friends, and colleagues via email, text, or social media—or give them a call—inviting them to join you in taking an active step to fight the pandemic.

Two ways you can help:

1.Use the GivingTuesdayNow social toolkit for messaging suggestions and images.

2. Sign up as a volunteer fundraising ambassador. You will have a personalized link to track who makes a gift as a result of your efforts. Your ambassador dashboard also gives you access to additional peer-to-peer messaging ideas and images.

Use the links below to sign up as a fundraising ambassador for the causes you care about:

Feed the Frontline- providing meals to our frontline health care workers in Atlanta

Emory COVID-19 Impact Fund- supporting Emory’s health care research and patient needs

DRIVE to end COVID-19- supporting Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory’s research for a coronavirus cure

Healthcare Employee Hardship Fund- providing financial assistance for Emory Healthcare employees

Public Health Preparedness and Research Fund- supporting research for pandemic preparedness

Emory Together Fund- supporting emergency relief for Emory University students, faculty, and staff

By promoting #GivingTuesdayNow and #EmoryTogether, you are helping to fight the pandemic. Thank you!

Thank you for your gift to feed our heroes on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unlike many other crowdfunding sites, Emory’s Momentum platform does not take a cut of the proceeds.

This means 100% of your gift has gone to provide meals for frontline health care professionals. Your gift has helped deliver over 20,000 meals to frontline workers in 19 area hospitals. 

In addition to fueling caregivers, our meal delivery initiatives are supporting food service workers in more than a dozen Atlanta-area partner restaurants and businesses, including:

Antico Pizza Napoletana

Avalon Catering

Bazati Atlanta

Chef Linton and Gina Hopkins

Chez Montier Catering

Common Market

DAS BBQ

Fifth Group / Bold Catering

Georgia Organics

Local Three

Miller Union

Southern Proper Hospitality

Storico Fresco

Tamarind Restaurant Group

Chef Juan Montier of Chez Montier Catering recorded this special thank-you message:

https://vimeo.com/410192982/332246f150

With more than 1,000 donors, keep this community supported effort going strong by encouraging your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn networks to support the Feed the Frontline Fund.

Thank you for helping members of the Emory community with your gift to the Emory Feed the Frontline fund!

Our frontline health care workers are heroes every day, but now more than ever, they deserve and need our help. You have generously joined the Feed the Frontline movement, a timely initiative created by The James M. Cox Foundation, to offer vital nourishment and comfort to Atlanta’s health care frontline. “Every day our health care workers are leaving the safety of their homes and putting themselves in harm’s way in order to save lives,” said Jim Kennedy, chairman of Cox Enterprises. “We recognize the sacrifice they’re making, and this is one small way we can support them while they battle on the front lines.”

This effort is a collaboration with major foundations and corporations and more than 700 individual donors. Since April 3, we have already delivered 11,000 meals, but this is just the beginning—throughout each week, over 9,000 total boxed meals will be delivered across the city to help feed the frontline.

We are deeply grateful for your support of this remarkable effort. Please help amplify this message and your impact by sharing why you donated to the Emory Feed the Frontline fund via Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn using the hashtag #feedthefrontline.

As members of the Emory community, we’re all in this together. Before we can even begin to measure the toll COVID-19 will take on our lives, you have already stepped in to help, and we are inspired by your kindness.

Your generosity and care are what truly define and unite the Emory community. Thank you.